Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron,… — Elizabeth Spires
How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is… — Milton Friedman
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoakâ€™s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of… — Jenny Boully
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. — Avital Ronell
Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity… — Aron Ralston
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. — Henry James
Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior. — Emma Watson
Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre. — April Bloomfield
We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved. — William J. Clinton
Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or,… — Walt Whitman
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they… — Edward Abbey
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft… — Raymond Chandler
Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation. — Simon Sinek
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. — Carson McCullers
The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over. — Sydney Pollack
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless… — Eckhart Tolle

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